In our busy lives, we miss the opportunity to find time to evaluate our lives. Anne Morrow Lindbergh said, “For if it is a woman’s nature to nurture, then she must nourish herself.” As Joan Anderson says, we need to “retreat in order to retrieve lost strength, repair our inner selves and regroup by lightening our load, regenerating our spirits and returning new to an old place.”

It’s time to stretch forward. Time to take care of yourself, step outside of your routine, & savor nature.

Details are listed below for Celebrate What’s Right With Your World (10/18-10/20/24).

2025 potential retreats: Embracing Your Life, & Finding Purpose Today.

Join us on retreat where you will find a time of community, contemplation, and joy.

To read testimonials from previous retreaters, both in-person and online, click on button below.

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We often celebrate the big things in life - graduations, anniversaries, and new babies.  

How often do we take the time to celebrate the small things, the everyday things? 

Do you celebrate finally cleaning that closet you can barely get in to? 

Or finishing the huge mound of laundry after vacation? 

If we believe that there is something to celebrate every day, 

we will have a better chance of finding it. 

What lens do you have on as you view your world? 

Do you look for possibilities? 

Do you savor what is in front of you? 

When change happens, do you embrace it? 

Join us October 18-20, 2024 for Celebrate What’s Right With Your World

Retreat Objectives:

• Explore ways to be generous with yourself

• Reflect on what you are passionate about

• Create new, positive habits of celebration you can easily transition into your life

• Enjoy time together to create a supporting community

• Enjoy time alone to savor and reflect

All Inclusive cost of $545 includes:

• Time together for sharing 

• Time alone for directed journaling and exercises

• Five home-cooked meals, 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, and snacks

• Individual bedroom and bathroom for each retreater for two nights

• Some ensuite, some single use hall bath

• Limited number of rooms available with ensuite bath ($50 value).

• Directed meditation

• Programming, materials, and more

• A personalized directed journal

• Access to Lakeside’s beautiful amenities including Lake Erie shore, paths and trails, fall beauty, recreational courts, a few local shops, and more

• Creating the foundation for a new community of women to support you at Lakeside and when you depart 

• Access to the Alumni page on the Stretching Forward website

Early Bird Specials:

• Bring a Friend. Register before July 1 at $495 each

• Register before August 1 for $525

Scheduling Details

• Check in Friday, October 18 between 10:30 - 11:30 am at the Idlewyld, Lakeside, Ohio

• Retreat begins at 12:30 pm Friday (after lunch on your own)

• Retreat ends around 1 pm Sunday

• Bonus for Nurses:

  “This CE Activity, OLN-S-3121-2023 offered by Stretching Forward LLC has been approved for 12.0 contact hours by the Ohio Board of Nursing through the approver unit at the Ohio League for Nursing (OBN-006-92) and the program is approved to be offered through March 20, 2025.”

  For women who are ready to . . .

take a weekend for themselves

    develop new habits of celebration

    see the world in ways that fill them with joy

    feel energy in their outlook

  and celebrate what’s right with their world!

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A retreat for a woman to rediscover her passion for life.

In our busy lives, we often miss the opportunity to find time to nourish ourselves.

Open your heart and mind as we explore how our past is only part of what shapes our future. We are on the journey to become scholars of spirit and soul. 

It’s time for each of us to reflect on our own journey.

Retreat - Retrieve - Repair - Regroup

Embracing Your Life

Retreat Objectives:

• Harvest strength from your past

  • Find courage to embrace the life you have

    • Take home an intention to stretch toward

      • Enjoy time together to create a supporting community

        • Enjoy time alone to savor and reflect

          • Experience all nature has to offer at Lakeside

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Find Stretching Forward on FaceBook or Instagram at Stretching Forward Retreats or look for Diane McGregor on LinkedIn.

Stretching Forward retreats are for women seeking direction toward their next life chapter.